Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-30

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR RoBERTsoN, OF
Indiana, has been elected president OF the
State Board of Equalization over Governor
Gray.
REPORTS from otter Tail County, Mimi,
saw that grasshoppers are devastating
grain fields, and the farmers are threat
ened with the entire destruction OF their
crops.
Francis B. LOOMS has been elected
president of the Dayton. Fort Wayne q
Chicago railway. This road will issue
S. 500 600 bonds and be leased to the Cln-
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton.
THE Pacific coast branchOf the Ameri-
can Shipping and Industrial League has
adopted resolutions favoring bountles Tor
reyiving the merchant marine and calling
for coast defenses.
L. H. PORE, employed in the Chicago
water department, has embezzled between
s., 600 and 81, 600 and disappeared
THE master plumbers in session In Chi
cago have adopted new rules for appren-
tees.
SEVEN of the Jagers ice buildings in Co
lumbus, O., burned the other afternoon,
with loss on buildings and stock OF ST.
600; insurance, -, 5OO.
THE National Game and Fish Protective
Association held its annual meeting IN
Chicago on the ed, delegates being present
from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri
steps to secure protective legislation in the
several States.
JAMES and Thomas Kendall, two broth
ers, were struck by lightning and instantly
killed at Huntingburg, Ind, during
storm the other evening.
THE directors of the ST. Paul & Duluth
railroad have declared seml-annual
dividend of 315 per cent.
REV. NICHOLAS MATz has been appointed
by the Pope as the coadjutor of the Bishop
of Denver, Col.
AN examination of the condition of the
Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati on the 22d
showed that the liabilities would reach the
stupendous suit of ST, 000, 600. Harper seemed
to have been guilty of the widest specula-
tions. The assets of the bank were I'M
known for certain, but were thought to be
small.
THE other morning five men boarded the
LIS a. m. Grand Trunk train at Fort
Gratot, Mich, and held up the passengers.
Several lost what money they had and one
man lost S16O. Three of the supposed rob
bers were arrested.
NATHAN DAVIS, Probate Judge of Elk
County, Kan, is reported missing with de-
falcations amounting to So, OOO
MEsSRs. WHITLEY, FAssLER q KELLEY, the
reaper manufacturers of Springfield, O.,
have failed. Assets and liabilities I'M
known.
FIRE in Wilmington, ILL.,, the other day
destroyed the Chicago q Alton depot and
freight house, an elevator filled with grain,
a warehouse and several houses and cars.
Loss, $4,000.
NEGOTIATIONS are said to be in progress
for the removal of the great works of the
Uuited States Rolling Stock Company from
Urbana, O., to Decatur, Ala.
AT the recent commencement at Buchtel
College, Akron, o., John r. Buchtel, its
founder, made an additional gift of S115, 600
to the college.
j. W. WILTSHIRE, the broker, has been
placed under arrest for completely in the
Fidelity Bank frauds.
THE jury in the case of Cora Lee, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Sarah Graham at
Springfield, Mo-, were unable to agree on
a verdict and were discharged on the 23d.
They stood eight for conviction and four
for acquittal.
THE notorious murderer Quinn Bohan-
non, escaped from the Jail at Nebraska
City, Neb., recently.